1839 Bloomsburg farmhouse turned country inn and brewery
991 Central Road, Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Room rates vary by season. The property includes a restaurant and the Turkey Hill Brewing Company.
Access
Limited Access
Historic farmhouse with stairs to upper rooms; courtyard rooms on a single level
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1839 · 1839 Pennsylvania Farmhouse · Select Registry Inn
The 1839 farmhouse at the heart of the Inn at Turkey Hill stands on a 100-acre Columbia County, Pennsylvania, property that includes a one-room schoolhouse and an evolving cluster of guest cottages. In 1942, Bloomsburg Press Enterprise publisher Paul Eyerly purchased the farm. He raised his family in the original farmhouse and intended to convert the property into a bed and breakfast, but did not realize the plan in his lifetime.
In 1984, the year after Eyerly's death, his daughter opened the property as a country inn. Two guest rooms occupied the second floor of the original farmhouse, with sixteen additional rooms built around a small courtyard. The inn now operates 23 rooms, with Eyerly's grandson Andrew Pruden serving as the current owner and innkeeper.
In 2011, the Turkey Hill Brewing Company was established on the property, expanding the inn's offerings to include a brewery alongside its farmhouse restaurant. The property is a Select Registry member and is the subject of regional travel and historic-inn coverage.
Sources
The lore associated with the property comes primarily from a single Shadowlands-era account by a family that rented the home in the early 1980s. They reported that the upstairs bedroom directly off the staircase, said to be the room in which the original owner's mother died, retained a recognizable perfume and the sound of footsteps at night.
The family described a recurring incident involving the attic door at the top of the second-floor hallway. The latch did not hold, and the father wedged a knife into the top of the door to keep it closed. Each Monday morning, the knife was found placed inside the door's first step, in a position the family's young children could not have reached.
No named paranormal investigator, regional newspaper, or historical-society publication surfaced in research that corroborated these accounts. The current operating innkeepers do not market the property as haunted, and the lore lives mostly through Pennsylvania paranormal aggregator listings.
Reserve one of 23 rooms at the Inn at Turkey Hill, anchored by an 1839 farmhouse and a small courtyard of newer guest rooms. The property pairs lodging with a farm-to-table restaurant and the on-site Turkey Hill Brewing Company.
Dine in the historic farmhouse restaurant and visit the Turkey Hill Brewing Company on the inn's grounds, established in 2011.
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